If panel’s correct, WVU beat the Big 12 champs

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It’s championship weekend—sort of—in the Big 12, which doesn’t actually have a true championship game but does have two matchups that will determine the league winner.

As you’ll note below, the MetroNews crew foresees Cowboy Bedlam in Stillwater, where an OSU win would only be the second-biggest news of the week. The real happening was ex-billionaire T. Boone Pickens announcing his engagement to Toni Brinker, whose ex-husband invented the salad bar!!! Like my dear nana always said, “If that ain’t mixing oil and croutons, I don’t know what is!”

On with this week’s picks, all the while hoping BYU and Northern Illinois join the Big 12 so the conference’s name will make sense again and allow it to get back into the title-game business:

Week 15

Randy
Gyorko

Brad
Howe

Hoppy
Kercheval

Kyle
Wiggs

Oklahoma at
Oklahoma State

Okla. State
31-20

Okla. State
34-24

Okla. State
34-24

Okla. State
30-18

Texas
at Baylor

Baylor
42-28

Baylor
42-28

Baylor
42-27

Baylor
34-20

Marshall
at Rice

Marshall
57-27

Marshall
35-27

Marshall
42-35

Marshall
35-27

Auburn
vs. Missouri

Missouri
34-31

Auburn
31-30

Missouri
31-30

Missouri
34-30

Ohio State
vs. Michigan State

Ohio State
27-17

Ohio State
28-21

Ohio State
27-21

Michigan St.
21-17

Stanford at
Arizona State

Arizona St.
28-24

Arizona St.
31-28

Stanford
30-23

Stanford
28-23

Duke vs.
Florida State

Florida St.
55-14

Florida St.
49-17

Florida St.
49-20

Florida St.
36-14

Louisville
at Cincinnati

Louisville
37-24

Louisville
13-3

Louisville
9-7

Louisville
35-21

Bowling Green
vs. Northern Illinois

N. Illinois
35-20

N. Illinois
28-24

N. Illinois
30-27

N. Illinois
35-20

Utah State
at Fresno State

Fresno St.
47-40

Fresno St.
35-31

Fresno St.
32-28

Fresno St.
36-21

Last week:Season total:

8-296-44

6-495-45

8-291-49

6-4
90-50

Week 15

Garrett
Cullen

Allan
Taylor

Greg
Hunter

Travis
Jones

Oklahoma at
Oklahoma State

Okla. State
30-20

Okla. State
40-31

Okla. State
24-23

Okla. State
34-31

Texas
at Baylor

Baylor
34-28

Baylor
37-34

Baylor
48-24

Baylor
41-28

Marshall
at Rice

Marshall
34-27

Rice
33-30

Rice
35-30

Marshall
32-20

Auburn
vs. Missouri

Auburn
28-21

Missouri
34-30

Auburn
27-24

Missouri
41-37

Ohio State
vs. Michigan State

Ohio State
33-21

Michigan St.
19-17

Ohio State
38-35

Ohio State
17-10

Stanford at
Arizona State

Stanford
24-21

Stanford
28-24

Stanford
42-14

Arizona St.
35-28

Duke vs.
Florida State

Florida St.
42-21

Florida St.
27-17

Florida St.
32-31

Florida St.
41-20

Louisville
at Cincinnati

Louisville
28-21

Louisville
21-17

Louisville
24-21

Louisville 24-20

Bowling Green
vs. Northern Illinois

Bowling Gr.
34-31

Bowling Gr.
24-20

N. Illinois
30-28

N. Illinois
42-21

Utah State
at Fresno State

Fresno St.
38-27

Fresno St.
42-30

Fresno St.
33-30

Fresno St.
35-17

Last weekSeason total

6-489-51

4-684-56

7-380-60

7-379-61

Allan Taylor

Allan Taylor joined MetroNews in August 2012, following 18 years of newspaper, magazine and multimedia work as an SEC columnist, sports editor, assistant sports editor, managing editor, news reporter and media consultant.

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Comments

Mountaineer fanatic

We have some really good high school seniors here in SW Florida. Would love to hear they are going to be Mountaineers. Come on down!!!

December 8, 2013 at 1:02 pm |

Mountaineer fanatic

It is Sunday and it appears you did as bad as I did picking them. Maybe next year will be better for all of us. I did have Michigan St, Baylor and FSU but lost with Missouri and Ok. State. Glad Baylor won though. Hope they win the Fiesta.
Was Hunter drinking some moonshine. He picked Texas to beat Marshall and Ohio State to beat Stanford!!!!
2014 is the year of the Mountaineer.

December 8, 2013 at 12:58 pm |

Dee

Damn. I picked 9 correctly! Lol!!

December 8, 2013 at 11:37 am |

Marty Chase

How can you guys all pick Okla. State? I had the Sooners all the way, plus Mich State in the night game.

December 7, 2013 at 9:50 pm |

GH

Looks to me the panel sucks. No surprise. GH

December 7, 2013 at 9:43 pm |

Woodchuck

WVU womens basketball won today.

December 7, 2013 at 6:10 pm |

Steve

Best thing for wvmetronews to do would be to just take this page off of the site.

December 7, 2013 at 10:25 am |

tw eagle

Northern Illinois ? why not East Carolina , Bowling Green , or Boise State . . . I see the
XII going to 0 teams before it expands . . .

Luck (sic) with conferences has not been the
strong suit for WVU . . . shunned by the SEC
when they broke from the Southern Conference , shunned again when the ACC group split from the Southern . . . not wanted by the Big Easy , but probably allowed to join because of lack of numbers . . .
any wonder I look at WVU's "luck" at gaining admission to the XII with a jaundiced eye . . .
had the XII at least made an overt overture toward Miami , Fla St , Clemson and Va Tech
before their lock on rights - even if it failed , it would have proven that they were planning a long term future . . .
there are still 8 open slots in the 4 other top conferences to bring them all to 16 teams . . . trying not to look at this with a WVU bias , it makes more sense to TV ,
NCAA , and playoff picture to work with 4
conferences rather than 5 . . . just my two cents worth . . .

December 6, 2013 at 6:40 pm |

OKANYDAY

There are 10 football openings in those 4 conferences if you are using 16 team super conferences! Current count of teams:
ACC - has 14 teams
BIG10 - will have 14 teams in 2014
PAC12 - has 12 teams
SEC - has 14 teams

December 7, 2013 at 4:38 pm |

Rick S.

The ACC is kind of at 15 depending on how Notre Dame is counted. I would not be surprised if the ACC adds either UCF or Cincinnati to get to 16. UCF has a larger enrollment than either Ohio State or Texas (according to wikipedia) and has the potential resources and market to become a big player in college athletics.

Larry, Allan was thinking that Marshall played a very soft schedule this year and that Rice is a very disciplined football team without thugs and lazy players like the plundering terd. Martinsburg High could've beat the terd this year.

December 8, 2013 at 1:20 pm |

Hailey

Larry "The Greek" provides yet another Epic fail

December 8, 2013 at 11:53 am |

Hesa Duffus

Classic pick for Big Larry, Marshall was so brutal in all aspects of the game and got rolled appropriately. As for your boy Cato? this clown was supposed to be a team leader but he couldn't lead a prostitute to a bedroom

What a joke and some clowns on this site want Doc "Will never win the big one" Holiday as coach at WVU???